Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-10

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propriety Of any society, open or
secret, inviting our aspiring states
men to a qualification of those prin-
ciples which, by instinct and habits
Of thought, have become american in
both our traditions and history, by
questions imported here from the
crying needs of pauperlsm in Europe.
In advance of nomination we have
briefly given the candidates a cue
which, adopted and adhered to, can
not fail them in the end.
The Cumberland Times has found
something rotten in the Denmark of
Allegany county registration" 1t
has discovered that the registrars are
annually intimidated by republican
politicians into "gross discrimina-
ton against the democratic party"
ETC., and threatens the registrars with
the next governor, etc.
If this be true it is quite bad. No
registrar should permit himself to be
intimidated, and we are glad the
Times has grown indignant over the
turpitude Of the bulldozed.
An amusing feature anent its COM
plant is that the registration system,
the smallest democratic damson in
the county, should attract SO large a
portion OF the Times criticism, and
the largest none. Indeed, the fun
becomes convulsive when one endowed
with q keen sense Of the ludicrous
reads the following:
The Frostburg JOURNAL is somewhat dis
posed to slur at our county schools. 1t says:
Two or three school politicians in this coun-
ty can displace all the successful teachers Mr.
Weimer can develop in q hundred talks, and
put in their places the most unsuccessful
We should like to know who these polite
ians are. With all due Difference to the jour
NAILS opinions we do not think there is a
county in the State where politics have as lit
tie to do with the management Of public
schools as here, and we are quite certain that
nowhere in Maryland is the school system
better managed than here
Certainly. All the printing posi-
BILE to be done in the Times Office is
probably turned in there, and that is
conclusive evidence Of superior man.
agement.
However, We did not use the term,
politicians" IN the sense implied by
the Times. If we should write
church politicians we would not de-
sign the expression as a political one.
But since the Times has adopted
a construction which appears to suit
it better than that conveyed by our
definitlve term, ''school," )" let us COM
mend to it the project of taking a
census of salaried 'beneticiaries to as
certain which party is enjoying the
lions share of the spoils of the system
1t will find that under a democratic
administration, dlsbursing tens of
thousands Of dollars, much the larger
half goes into republican pockets
this in obedience, too, to republican
enterprise and pressure. Hence, it
looks like 'politics have little to do
with school management,"Q because
it is not to the pecuniary interest of
the republican party that it should so
appear, and (2) the democratic party,
inc7uding its organ, notices the lop-
sided distribution of patronage only
to endorse and eulogize it.
But the fifteen seven-day registrars,
with their scanty dole of job printing,
about ten dollars each in Frostburg,
are to be held to strict party account
for "bestowing their of:fc-ial patron
age (S1O worthy upon republican and
independent newspaper Offices"
Verify, from those to whom much
is given little suficeth ; from those
to whom little is given much shall
be required, and if they do not fetch
the Doodle, at the next turn of the
wheel, by Jackson, they shall be
bounced